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Monthly Archives March 2009

Link it Up, Vol. 1

Some interesting things I’ve come across on the web: Readability takes long webpages and reformats them so they are much easier to read. Just Bento is a website and blog dedicated to really cute little box lunches. Signs Freeman’s Mind: because once upon a time, I played Half Life.

Posted 30 March 2009 Adam § § Comments (0)

Progressives on Rand

I meet people all the time who a) have progressive views about public policy and b) fondly remember reading Ayn Rand’s books. I’ve always thought this tension could be explained by people forming preferences about books before they form preferences about political positions. But there is something interesting going on in the comments to this [...]

Posted 26 March 2009 Adam § § Comments (3)

Adorable Kant Quote of the Day

“But it is noteworthy that if we secretly deceived this lover of the beautiful by planting in the ground artificial flowers (which can be manufactured exactly like natural ones)…and he discovered the deceit, the immediate interest that he previously took in them would disappear at once…” (Critique of Judgment, Sec. 42) I like to think [...]

Posted 17 March 2009 Adam § , § Comments (0)

Pro-Life celebrations of choice?

I thought: something uncontroversial for my first post back in a while. With GOP Chairman Michael Steele’s “outrageous” remark that abortion might be a woman’s individual choice and Palin’s gladness during the campaign that her daughter had made a decision to keep her new baby, I’ve begun to wonder how many pro-life politicians really understand [...]

Posted 13 March 2009 Adam § , , § Comments (4)